Question

The "raw bytes module" on random.org is disabled (http://www.random.org/bytes/), and I need to know the output format they used to have. More specificly: I have a program using 1024 raw hex bytes from random.org and I need to implement this feature.

What was the format they used to have? Possible formats I can think of are:

  • 0x1a 0x1b
  • #1a #1b
  • 1a 1b
  • 1a1b
  • .......

There are many possibilities... Who may help me?

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Solution

You can use http://archive.org/web/ to retrieve an old web page that doesn't exists anymore.

For example: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.random.org/bytes/ (sorry but there is a silly problem with the * in the url even if I use the percent encoding code, so copy and paste it, don't click on it)

Then pick a backup at a date which seems to be good.

If it's not ok, go to previous page and pick another backup.

For example I chose 2014/03/01 and voilà

If you're lucky you can even use the form of the backuped page: here's the result with the defaults params.

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